Guild Wars 2

Piogre.2164:

Forgive me if I’m missing something here, but unless I’m mistaken, all “revealed” does is prevent immediate re-application of the buff that initiates it.

If I have a cake, and then I eat it, I would no longer have a cake, at least not until I make another one. Now, if the cake were to have been poisoned or drugged, or if it gave me diabetes, that would suck. But in this case, it does none of those things. I just don’t have a cake anymore. You can’t eat your cake and have it too.

Revealed may technically be a “debuff”, but it functions like a cooldown. Yes, a cooldown. Thieves don’t have to deal with nearly as many cooldowns as the rest of us, but you surely understand how it works. After you exit stealth, you need to wait a couple seconds to be able to use it again. And you can still prolong stealth by stacking duration- you can keep eating cake as long as you have it. But once you exit stealth, either by wearing it out or attacking, you need to wait a meager 3 seconds. Sorry.

Revealed doesn’t only prevent the skill that initiated it. It makes you immune to stealth. That means that any skill that would stealth you won’t work.

And yes it does work as a cooldown, because if it wasn’t there we would just CnD and backstab for ever. But this change IMO just prevents the defensive use of it through the Shadow arts tree(it gives regen and condition removal). I don’t like chain stealthing, but really, it was the only defensive option except for retreating for the build that most thieves use in WvW. I would love this change if they also gave us some alternative to have some regeneration/healing without retreating.

What I see happening from this change, is most thieves abandoning shadow arts because it really is more a pain in the kitten than it is useful with this change and just getting deadly arts instead, because it’s the second most viable option, and the rest of them trading SA for the Acrobatics tree, going for a semi-tank build.

Everyone is whining for glass cannon thieves, but they do not understand that not every thief wants to play glass cannon, but really it IS the only good option that we have at the moment, and this change is only making it worse. I expect even more whining now as more thieves go full GC.